The majority of us scarcely see more distinctly the faultiness of our own conduct than the faultiness of our own arguments, or the dulness of our own jokes.
The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant.
The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
The idea of God, so far as it has been a high spiritual influence, is the ideal of a goodness entirely human.
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies.
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
The gods have a curse for him who willingly tells another the wrong road.
The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself.
The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence.
The finest language is chiefly made up of unimposing words.
